Harvard's record says 11-26. The story says something different.

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They played 23 of their first 26 games on the road. No other Ivy program did that. They took their lumps early and kept competing. In conference play, Harvard ranks third in the Ivy League in team ERA with six pitchers posting ERAs under 5.00. The pitching is there. The fight is there.

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And the player leading this team right now, senior Gio Colasante, is on the John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Watch List, leading the Ivy League in home runs, hitting .386 in conference play with a 2.27 ERA on the mound. In the Ivy League. At Harvard.

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Current Commits

THE 2027 CLASS

I spoke to the coaching staff this past week and they are bringing in several more 2027 players.

• Luke Crawford — C
• Max Boehm — RHP

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The 2028 CLASS: Wide open and they are putting players on their board.
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When Harvard identifies the right player, they move quickly and they mean it. The athletes who get recruited here are not the ones who waited to be found. They are the ones whose families understood the process and got them on the radar at the right time.

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THE FOUNDATION

• Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts — one of the most iconic college cities in the world, minutes from Boston
• Enrollment: About 7,000 undergraduates — one of the most selective universities on the planet
• Conference: Ivy League, NCAA Division I. No athletic scholarships, but Harvard meets 100% of demonstrated financial need. Families earning under $85K typically pay nothing. Many middle-income families pay significantly less than they would at a state school.
• Home Field: Joseph J. O'Donnell Field in Allston, on the banks of the Charles River
• Academics: Pre-med, pre-law, finance, computer science, government, economics — every door is open from here

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THE LEGACY

Harvard baseball has been around since 1865. That is not a typo.

Four College World Series appearances. 14 NCAA Tournaments. Five Ivy League Championship Series titles. 12 Ivy League regular season titles. 61 players drafted into professional baseball.

This is not a program that exists just to check a box on Harvard's athletics page. This is a program with real history, real results, and real alumni who went on to play professionally after graduating from one of the most demanding academic institutions in the world.

The standard here has been set for over 150 years. And it is still there.

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THE COACH

Bill Decker has been Harvard's head coach since 2013. Over a decade of stability at the same program, which in college baseball is rare and valuable.

Decker recruits athletes who can handle both worlds, the classroom and the field, without letting either one suffer. His players are not just baseball players. They are student-athletes in the truest sense of the word. And when they graduate, they leave with a network, a degree, and a baseball resume that scouts respect.

That combination is almost impossible to find anywhere else.

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WHAT THE IVY LEAGUE ACTUALLY MEANS FOR DEVELOPMENT

Here is something most families do not realize about Ivy League baseball.

The level of competition is real. Every team in the Ancient Eight has players who were heavily recruited, played elite travel ball, and could have gone to programs in power conferences. The Ivy League is not a consolation prize. It is a choice made by athletes who want both.

Ivy League scouts, and there are plenty of them, specifically target this conference because they know what they are getting. A player who can perform academically at Harvard and compete athletically at the D1 level every weekend is exactly the kind of athlete professional organizations want.

61 Harvard players have been drafted into professional baseball. That number does not lie.

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THE PIPELINE

61 MLB draft picks in program history. Harvard is not producing first-round picks every year. But the players who come through here and get drafted do so with something no other program can match.

They leave with a Harvard degree in one hand and a professional contract in the other. If baseball ends tomorrow, their career is not over. It is just changing direction. And the direction a Harvard degree points is up, in every field, in every industry, in every part of the world.

That is the pipeline. Not just to pro ball. To everything that comes after.

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WHY HARVARD, WHY NOW

• 61 MLB draft picks proves scouts take this program seriously
• Gio Colasante is putting this program on the national radar as one of the best two-way players in the Ivy League right now
• Small roster means real playing time and real development, not two years sitting behind someone else
• The 2027 and 2028 classes are being heavily recruited right now.
• Cambridge puts your athlete minutes from Boston, one of the best cities in the country for networking, internships, and career development
• A Harvard degree follows your athlete for the rest of their life regardless of what happens in baseball

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WHAT THE COACHING STAFF IS LOOKING FOR

Harvard recruits athletes who can handle one of the most demanding academic environments in the country and compete at the D1 level on the same weekend. High character, high ceiling, and serious about both sides of the student-athlete equation.

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WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CRIMSON

You are not just playing baseball. You are building two careers simultaneously. One ends when the cleats come off. The other one is just getting started. And at Harvard, the second career might be the more impressive of the two.

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LET'S TALK.

Harvard is not for every recruit. But for the right athlete, it is one of the best decisions they will ever make.

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Book a assessment call with me. No pressure. Just an honest conversation about where your athlete stands and whether Harvard belongs on the list.

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Most families never consider Harvard for baseball. The ones who do get a degree from the most recognized university in the world and a real shot at professional baseball. Both. At the same time. That is a rare deal worth at least one conversation.

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To your son's success.

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